GRACE CHICKEN (BORN 1914) Grace Chicken wanted to see the world. As a young woman, her ambition was to be a nurse in the war, so she joined the Red Cross and was stationed in Joplin, Missouri. When she heard
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ROBERT (BOB) HILLIARD (BORN 1926) Bob Hilliard enlisted in the US Army at age 18 and was assigned as a private to the 36th Infantry Division in Camp Blanding, Florida. He was deployed to Europe arriving there just after D-Day.
NEWTON BURDICK JR. (BORN 1916) Newton Burdick signed up to the US Navy after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Initially he was stationed in Louisiana as the Communications Officer for the Eighth Naval District in New Orleans. In response
